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PLAYING THE GAME.

The Rev. W. B. Scott a Taranaki, minister whea addressing a public meeting at Manaia recently used an episode from the football field to base a little sound advice upon. He said that he recently saw a football match at Kaponga in which a member of the famous All Black team was taking part, and if he (Mr Scott) had been referee he would have ordered this player off the ground for his unfair tactics. Footballers who were not prepared to “ play the game ” should be put aside. Sport had taken a great hold of the people of New Zealand, and if the sport was well conducted and clean —if those who indulged in it “played the game” —nothing but good would come out of it. What was true of sport was also equally true in business and in every walk in life. ■The fruiterer who put the rosy apples on top of the

stack and the scrubbers at the bottom did not “ play the game ”; neither did the members of a congregation who reviled their minister behind his back, nor the minister who utilised his position in the pulpit for thrusting at any particular member of his flock. In the realm of sport the player who “ played the game ” was respected by all lovers of sport, and the same rule prevailed in every walk of life.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 6 July 1907, Page 2

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PLAYING THE GAME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 6 July 1907, Page 2

PLAYING THE GAME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 6 July 1907, Page 2

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